Research Associate Professor, University of Washington

Ph.D., Labor Economics, Cornell University

dgoldhab@u.washington.edu

http://evans.washington.edu/fac/Goldhaber/

Areas of expertise: the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement; the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market; the relative efficiency of public and private schools; and the effects of accountability systems and market competition on K-12 schooling

Biography

Dan Goldhaber is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs, an Affiliated Scholar of the Urban Institute's Education Policy Center, and Senior Non-resident Fellow of Education Sector. Dr. Goldhaber previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from 1997-2002. He serves as the principal investigator of CALDER's Washington team and is a member of CALDER's Strategic Planning Group.

Dr. Goldhaber's research focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, and the relationship between teacher labor markets and teacher quality. Topics of published work in these areas include studies of the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement; the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market; the relative efficiency of public and private schools; and the effects of accountability systems and market competition on K-12 schooling.

Dr. Goldhaber's research has been published in leading economic and education journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Joyce Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and numerous other private foundations.

Dr. Goldhaber holds degrees from the University of Vermont (B.A., Economics) and Cornell University (M.S. and Ph.D., Labor Economics).

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Goldhaber

CALDER Publications by Dr. Goldhaber